On: YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster

[paulcole]

You’ve been regularly commenting on a website that’s an advertising/marketing channel for a VC firm since 2018.

Seems like it’s more accurate to say that you have a moral objection to either ads you don’t like or things you have to pay for?

[oldkinglog → paulcole]

I've been reading HN since around that time, and it's hasn't made me sympathetic toward VC. If anything it's hardened my views against consumption, greed and advertising.

[paulcole → oldkinglog]

Good advertising will do that to you. Make you think you hate it while it works on you.

[genocidicbunny → paulcole]

HN doesn't force me to watch or read the ads. I can always ignore the posts that are mainly advertising.

So perhaps my moral objections are to obnoxious, in your face, unavoidable advertisements.

[sanswork → genocidicbunny]

If you read the headlines than you've read ads for thousands of products and they are unavoidable since they are inline.

[paulcole → genocidicbunny]

> I can always ignore the posts that are mainly advertising.

This is the reason advertising works. Because people think it doesn’t work on them lol.